At 14:33 22/02/2020 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote:
I'm trying to help someone out on formatting their document; they
posted earlier to the list.
Is this Teresa Brown?
it's the strangest thing. any attempt to insert 'page number' or
'page count' yields a blank space. well, not completely blank. there
is some kind of char but it appears only as a grey area.
The grey area is the required field, of course. So you have the field
but it is failing to display the required value. You could confirm
this by toggling the display to field names at View | Field Names (or Ctrl+F9).
the other major fields such as 'date' and so on work.
Good.
I would guess some kind of corruption somewhere ...
I think not.
... but maybe someone has a better notion.
I'm guessing the document has sections that need to be numbered other
than naturally, so that - perhaps? - the main body of a document is
paginated starting at page 1 despite its following title pages and
front matter, i.e not being the real first page of the document.
There appear to be two ways of achieving this:
Method I:
o Go to Insert | Manual Break... .
o In the Insert Break dialogue, select "Page break".
o Select an appropriate style (even if it does not change).
o Select "Change page number" and choose the starting page number.
Method II:
o Either select the relevant field or position the cursor just to the
left of it.
o Go to Edit | Fields... (or right-click | Fields...).
o For Page numbers, set a suitable value for Offset.
Now Method I seems to work for me, but Method II not always. In
particular, if the page number is greater than the actual number of
pages in the document it will not display. And negative page numbers
will not display. In those cases the field will show as a grey bock
but with no number - exactly what you describe.
I'm not sure about page count, but I suspect the problem is similar.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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